Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information

2008-04-01 10:59:07
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information
From: "Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
To: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:34:31 -0500
BINGO!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:32 AM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information



On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Randy Samora wrote:

> I didn't think I'd ever say that but I am backing up too much data.  I
> am running NBU 6.0 MP4, Windows Master/Media/Clients.  I have a client
> with four 500GB volumes and my full backups from this weekend are
> already at 1.7TB and still climbing.  I have seen this twice before
and
> it will end up backing up about twice as much data as is actually on
the
> client so I can only assume it's getting everything twice.  Does
anyone
> know how and why this happens and do you have any suggestions on how
to
> avoid it.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
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I have seen it although only when there were millions of small files 
involved, is that your case as well?

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